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i have heard that the photos are bad(sex/rape). A lot worse then Iraqi men with panties on their head. if that is true then the American people will be upset, but the sorry motherfuckers that are responsible will be prosecuted. the end.

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Charges were only brought against several low-ranking personnel. The people at top will never see the walls of a jail cell. Yet they are just as deserving of the sight, or perhaps even more so.

Sound familiar?

It happens over and over and over. Some horrible military travesty, yet the low ranks are the only ones who get the spotlights. Look at the My Lai massacre, William Calley was the only one who was convicted.

The majority of the current charges against those who committed crimes at Abu Ghraib are weak as fuck.Jeremy Sivits was sentenced on May 19, 2004 by a special court-martial (less severe than "general"; confinement sentence limited to one year) to the maximum one-year sentence, in addition to being discharged for bad conduct and demoted, upon his plea of guilty.Specialist Armin Cruz of the 325th Military Intelligence Battalion was sentenced on September 11, 2004 to eight months confinement, reduction in rank to private and a bad conduct discharge in exchange for his testimony against other soldiers.Sabrina Harman was sentenced on May 17, 2005 to six months in prison and a bad conduct discharge after being convicted on six of the seven counts. She had faced a maximum sentence of 5 years.Megan Ambuhl was convicted on October 30, 2004, of dereliction of duty and sentenced to reduction in rank to private and loss of a half-month?s pay.

In addition to what you pointed out Harman, is accused by the U.S. Army of attaching wires to a prisoner's hands while he stood on a box with his head covered and threatening electrocution if he fell and striking several prisoners by jumping on them as they lay in a pile.

And because of this she is charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice with conspiracy, dereliction of duty, and Cruelty and maltreatment.

Her 6 month penalty isn't even 6 months, she is only going to be serving for 4.

There are pictures of "prisoners" being raped, tortured, dissected, slaughtered; surfacing around or somewhere, out there. In this day in age, maybe video. But I doubt Republicans or radical right-wingers would give a shit.

The Pentagon is the one who broke the story of Abu Ghraib, and the press didn't pick up on it for awhile later. We already had an investigation because crimes were committed. The only reason it is national news is because of the pictures. With our cable news generation it isn't a story unless you have the visuals. Without "good copy" the story goes nowhere.

Color me jaded, but we can't keep murder, rape and abuse out of our own prisons here at home. Is anyone that surprised that out of the hundreds of thousands serving, some of them would be criminals?

I think some of the problems with public education can been seen in this fiasco. What type of dumb slut commits a crime, and then takes photos of it and sends them to friends?